Goebbels in the Underworld with All His Pretty Ones

The universe extracts no retribution.It annihilates without a thoughtof evil/good, sin/virtue. Human needfor righteous vengeance manufactured Hell and all the sorrowful and eternal underworlds only imaginations can map.

No Satanic bosom greeted Goebbelsand the family when the dream(his dream) of a blond Reichdismembered itself inside the bunker—the small, impermanent underworldwhere suffering was brief.

One may take a punitive solaceknowing he could see and hearthe kinder shudder, gasp, and hiss theirfinal almond-scented breaths as much-fucked Magda whimpered and collapsed. In thisone has at least imagined justice.